    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
<head>
        <title>jQuery effect</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a>
        <script src="../jquery-1.7.2.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $("a").click(function(event){
 event.preventDefault();
 $(this).hide("slow");
 });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>